TY - BOOK ID - 86134644 TI - Colossus : the anatomy of Delhi AU - Chakravorty, Sanjoy AU - Sircar, Neelanjan PY - 2021 SN - 1108935656 1009032321 1108832245 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Delhi (India) KW - Social conditions. KW - History. KW - Politics and government. KW - Economic conditions. KW - Dehli (India) KW - Dilli (India) KW - Delhi KW - Shahjahanabad (India) KW - Dihlī (India) KW - Political science. KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - Social sciences KW - State, The UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86134644 AB - The National Capital Region of Delhi is a diverse and unequal space. Its more than 30 million people are sharply differentiated by economic class, religion and caste, education, language, and migration status. Its 45,000 square kilometres is a tapestry of spaces - ghettoes, slums, enclaves, institutional areas, planned and unplanned and authorized and unauthorized colonies, forests and agricultural fields. In some ways it is a dynamic society aspiring to global city grandeur; in other ways it is a bastion of tradition, sectarianism and hierarchy. Colossus details these realities and paradoxes under three themes: social change, community and state, and inequality. From the material condition of the metropolis - its housing, services, crime and pollution - to its social organization - of who marries whom, who eats with whom, and who votes for whom - this book unpacks the complex reality of a metropolitan region that is emblematic of India's aspirations and contradictions. ER -